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Lundagård ( Swedish: Lundagård, Danish: Lundegaard), [1] located in what is now Sweden, was in the Middle Ages a castle for the Danish archbishop of Lund, who was a real church prince equal to the Nordic kings, [2] and as a spiritual prince ruled over not only cities and castles, but also over entire hundreds and over the entire province of Bornholm, [3] and whose archbishopric between 1103 and 1160 stretched from the North German coast all the way up to the Arctic. [4] [5] [6]
Lundagård was built around the year 1000 and was surrounded by a defensive wall with towers and inside, on the courtyard, there were stables, barns, sheds and two large stone houses. One was the residence, the other a "knight's hall" used for representation. [7] Within the wall were also gardens, the royal mint and the bishop's church, which in the early 12th century was rebuilt into Lund cathedral. [8]
Lundagård lost its importance during the Danish Reformation and was replaced by a royal residence, Kongehuset (in Danish) or later, called Kungshuset in Swedish. [9] [10]